How To Use posse comitatus In A Sentence
- The Crown was not only using soldiers as a police force (thus our enshrinement of posse comitatus), but were adding insult to injury by requiring the colonists to give the troops room and board. Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
- Federal troops in a policing role is just as violative of Posse Comitatus statutes as state peace officers functioning in a military role at “war” (vs. theater of drugs): consequential gains realized from malfeasant actions are intrinsically unlawful. Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana.
- Friday's term was posse comitatus, which is defined as: Define That Term #48
- The presence of these armaments in the hands of civilian officers has disabled any last thought that the fabled Posse Comitatus Act might save the populace from the deadly force designed to vanquish foreign armies.
- Hey, so now that we know that it was posse comitatus and not habeas corpus we were discussing WEEKS ago, can you stop being a dick? Think Progress » Right-Wing Media Distorts Clinton’s Oklahoma City Speech To Claim He Wants To Muzzle Dissent
- January 17th, 2010 at 6: 55 pm tombaker says: what time does the posse comitatus party start? Think Progress » Bush repudiates criticisms that Obama is ‘politicizing’ Haiti: ‘I don’t know what they’re talking about.’
- Bugs don't care about federalism, they are not constitutional "originalists," and they haven't read the literature on posse comitatus, either. Jonathan D. Moreno: Why I Hope Contagion Is Catching
- In 1878, Congress passed and the president signed into law the Posse Comitatus Act, which made it unlawful to use the Regular Army as a posse comitatus or for the enforcement of laws, except when its use was specifically authorized by the U.S. Constitution or by an act of Congress. Between War and Peace
- Update: An investigation has begun as to who ordered the troops outside of their base in direct violation of the posse comitatus and insurrection acts. March « 2009 « Antiwar.com Blog
- The Senate Judiciary Committee agreed that marshals could summon both the militia and regular troops to serve in a posse comitatus.
